Deep Zero

<p><strong>"Riveting reading..." — <em>Foreword Reviews</em></strong></p><p>It’s one a.m. Do you know where your teenagers are? Prosecutor Dana Hargrove makes it a point to know. But one night in the dead of winter she should have known more.</p><p>In February 2009 Dana is the newly-elected district attorney of a suburban county north of Manhattan where she lives with her husband attorney Evan Goodhue and their two teenage children. The Great Recession has seen a rise in substance abuse and domestic violence. It’s also the era of burgeoning social media an intoxicating lure for wayward and disaffected teens who find new methods of victimization: a game to some with no thought of the consequences.</p><p>During an arctic cold snap the body of a high school student is discovered lodged in the ice floes of the Hudson River. People are crying for justice but there doesn’t seem to be a law that fits. Days later in one hellish night Dana’s children are sucked into a criminal investigation against several of their classmates making her a convenient target for community outrage.</p><p>In <em>Deep Zero</em> the fourth standalone novel of legal suspense featuring the dynamic prosecutor Dana walks the tightrope like never before in her tricky balance between professional ethics and family loyalties.</p>